Refrigerating corned-beef tank



(No Model.)

'I-I. MENSLAGE. q REPRIGERATING OORNED BEEF TANK? No. 299,567.

Patented June 3, 1884. FMBA 3m awkw- NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY MENSLAGE, OF SOUTH BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

REFRIGERATING CORNED-BEEF TANK.

v SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,567, dated June 3, 1884.

Application med June 8,1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern,

Be it known that I, HENRY MENsLAeE, of South Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvements in Refrigerating Corned-Beef Tanks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention. relates to tanks for holding corned-beef and other similar articles of food in the brine of liquor in which they are kept for sale in markets and other similar places; and it consists in providing a refrigerating apparatus in combination with such tank in such manner that the ice-water which comes from the melting of the ice will aid in the refrigerating process and economize both in the use of ice and space required to place it all around the tank, substantially as hereinafter described.

In the drawings, Figure l is a top View of my refrigerator-tank with the cover removed, having a portion of the tank-bottom broken away to show the slats. Fig. 2 is a'longitudinal vertical section of the refrigeratortank and cover. I

A is the outer casing of the refrigeratortank inclosing the whole apparatus. 0 is the corned-beef tank proper, which is made water-tight to hold the brine, and is placed in the outside casing A of the boX containing the tank and its co-operating adjuncts. The tank 0 is made of any suitable material-such as zincand rests down upon a double row of slats, D E, which slats run at right angles to each other, those running in one direction resting upon those running in the other direction, so as to 'form a series of spaces and chambers connected together extending under the entire bottom of the corned-beef tank C.

These slats are supported upon a water-tight lining, d, which lines the entire inside surface of the walls A of the apparatus. At some distance from the outer walls of the tank at each end are placed two transverse vertical walls, H H, which extend upward, so as to leave a space between them and the cover of the tanks and form the end walls of the cornedbeef chamber 0. A faucet, m, connects with verse walls H H abottom consisting of asheet of metal is laid upon the slats D E, through which holes 7c are made. These holes connect the chambers B B, formed by the partitions H H at each end of the tank, with the spaces formed by the slats underneath, and these spaces are in turn connected with a faucet, a, leading through the outer wall A of the apparatus. The two end chambers, B B, are intended to receive ice, the water from the melting of which escapes through the passages 70 7c. S is the cover of the apparatus,which fits closely all around the edges, as shown.

The brine and beef being placed in the chamber 0 and the chambers B B supplied,

with ice in the ordinary manner, the melting of the ice and water therefrom flowing through the holes k 70 into the chambers and spaces between the slats D E forces out the air from these chambers,which having no other mode of escape is driven up through the passages 7c 70 and cooled by the ice. As the water rises to the level of the lower side of the slats D D the compression of the air in the spaces between these slats causes it to be cooled, and the continued accession of water from the melting ice refrigerates the whole bottom surface of the chamber 0, and effectually aids in preserving the brine and meat contained therein, while the side walls, H H, are directly cooled by the icein the chambers B B. By having two chambers B B, connected underneath the chamberO through theholes 7c 70 and opening over the top of the walls H H with the chamber C, it further happens that the ice in one of the chambers B B will usually operate to cool the air faster than in the other, and the air dropping down when cooling through the ice, as it becomes heavier, displaces and forces out that which lies below the chamber B, and receives and cools the air which follows after it from the top of the chamber 0. This, com bined with the forcing of the warmer air from the spaces between the slats D E, causes an upward passage of air through the ice in one ofthe tanks B while passing downward through the other until the entire bottom and end surfaces about the tank 0 are brought to a sufficient degree of coolness.

The faucet n is used to draw the wateraway from the space underneath the tanks B B and 0 when it accumulates in too great quantity. bers B B, the passages it 7;, and the series of "What I claim as new, and of my invention, slats with intervening spaces opening on their islower sides extending transversely across and 1. In combination with the tank 0 and the adjacent to the bottom of the tank 0, and fornn 5 chambers B B, and the connected spaces being spaces within which the air is compressed, 15

tween them and the bottom casing A, the passubstantially as described.

sages k k, and the cover S, s0 arranged that a HENRY MENSLAGE. space is left between it and the walls H H Witnesses: substantially as described. DAVID HALL RICE,

1o 2. In combination with the tank 0, the cham- N. P. OOKINGTON. 

